From Memory to Marble
Material type: TextPublication details: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020Description: 1 electronic resource (508 p.)Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: The book is a rare case study of the dynamics, processes and shifts around the creation and reading of one of the world's major monuments, through all the processes of its design and making. The frieze which represents the Great Trek and Voortrekker occupation of South Africa (1835-52) is one of the largest of its kind. The key question is how, a century later, were eighteen years of Voortrekker memory transformed into a 92-metre marble frieze?Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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The book is a rare case study of the dynamics, processes and shifts around the creation and reading of one of the world's major monuments, through all the processes of its design and making. The frieze which represents the Great Trek and Voortrekker occupation of South Africa (1835-52) is one of the largest of its kind. The key question is how, a century later, were eighteen years of Voortrekker memory transformed into a 92-metre marble frieze?
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